ELECTION 2010 - Your first stop on the political trail

It was supposed to be an easy election for the Labor Party. But things soured rapidly, recently, and PM Kevin Rudd became yesterday's hero. A bad poll or three and he was gone and Julia Gillard became Australia's first women PM. Since then she's attempted to patch the holes in Labor's sinking ship and regained much of the ground Rudd had lost. The Tony Abbott-led Opposition is unpredictable. It's made its mark by simply opposing - vehemently - just about everything. ARN will give you all the news that matters in the lead up to what appears a relatively tight poll, looking at the election from an IT and channel perspective with informed comment, detailed interviews, opinions and all the news. So check in regularly for all the latest.

THE NEWS
Latest stories first

• Denate intensifies: Gillard launches NBN in Townsville
• e-Health: Begins in Brisbane, Melbourne and Hunter Valley
• Greens: Offer rival cyber-safety policy
• Vote Now!: ARN Reader's Election 2010 Poll 3
• Abbott: Labor is promising e-health services that already exist
• Turnbull: Blasts NBN as Gillard spruiks broadband healthcare
• Slideshow: Pushing the button on the NBN in Tasmania
• Support: Customers, ISPs praise NBN Tasmania launch
• Conroy: Abbott is a luddite
• Coalition: Australians will gets 12Mbps more if we win
• Turnbull: Australia doesn't want 100Mbps Internet
• ISPs: Coalition NBN plan short-sighted
• Reaction: Industry very worried about Coalition broadband plan
• Tony Abbott: "I'm no Bill Gates"
• Conroy: Broadband plan a failure of the imagination
• What ISPs want: iiNet has its say
• ICT industry: Its stake in the ground
• Perspective: Retailers hoping for a Liberal win
• Gershon: Gillard Govt dips into $1bn honey pot
• Jamie Briggs: A Liberal take on data retention, the filter, NBN and technology
• NBN Footprint: Full coverage of the NBN announcement - find out if you're getting fibre to your premises
• NBN Footprint: Every Australian set to know if they will be linked into fibre, wireless or satellite services tomorrow
• Coalition: Defends its lack of NBN alternative, claims policy delay is standard
• Your say: What ISPs want
• Greens: To use political power in push for open source software
• Conroy: Abbott's cuts are reckless
• Pirate Party: Misses election boat
• The tech issues that matter: Summary of party positions on mandatory internet filtering, Telstra separation and the National Broadband Network (NBN)
• Last minute:Australians rushing to vote cause a backlog of requests
• Barnaby Joyce: Gets behind an ISP filter
• Pushed back: Conroy delays Internet filter until next year
• Conroy: Internet filter bill with fixes will be out by November - with 7 photos at Macquarie Telecom call centre launch
• 14 mainland sites named: Full details (with all the maps)
• Gillard: Says Conroy will get filter into shape
• What?:Gillard ducks filter questions
• Quigley: Please be patient with NBN
• Lindsay Tanner goes: Tech industry shocked by departure
• Life after Rudd: Filter plans still on after shake up
• National Party: Votes "no' to ISP filtering
• Senate committee: "Abandon the NBN"
• Australian Christian Lobby: Anti-filter movement doesn’t faze us
• iiNet: Conroy misrepresents our filtering stance
• Budget 2010/11: Government pumps cash into NBN, ISP, filtering

INTERVIEWS

• The Australian Christian Lobby's Jim Wallace Q&A: On what he wants from the upcoming election and why he thinks people against the filter are either misinformed or suffering from ‘extreme liberalism’.
• Senator Scott Ludlam Q&A: On preferring the voluntary ISP filter, NBN, Telstra, Government procurement and what he plans to do if the Greens get the balance of power.
• Communications Alliance chairman, Michael Lee, Q&A: On ISP filtering and browser history data collection
• Senator Barnaby Joyce Q&A: On ISP filtering, Telstra and the NBN
• Senator Kate Lundy Q&A: On ISP filtering and the Gershon review
• Shadow Minister, Tony Smith, Q&A: On why he won't oppose mandatory ISP filtering outright
• Senator Scott Ludlam Q&A: On his opposition to ISP filtering, support for Telstra separation, and the National Broadband Network
• Senator Nick Xenophon Q&A: On why he probably won't vote for a filter, Telstra's separation and the cloud

COMMENT

• yARN (8) - August 2010: NBN a pipeline to political parsimony
• yARN (7) - August 2010: The Coalition's broadband policy could be a winner
• yARN (6) -August 2010: Why the Coalition filter move is a win for Conroy
• yARN (5) - July 2010: Conroy’s cleverest move yet on the filter
• yARN (4) - July 2010: Let's dance - with Julia, Stephen, Michael … and Barnaby
• yARN (3)- July 2010: Wake up and smell the democracy, Stilgherrian
• yARN (2) - June 2010: A Gillard Australia - what does it mean for tech?
• yARN (1)- June 2010: Why Kate Lundy won’t get Stephen Conroy’s job

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